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I’m currently (2020-2025) on research leave as an Academy of Finland Research Fellow. The aim of my project is to better understand scientific problem-solving: Science is the humanity’s most successful problem-solving system, and the primary source of epistemic authority in modern societies. In my research, I view & model science as a distributed cognitive system, “problem-solving writ large.” How does that system function at different levels from individual scientists to research groups and scientific communities? And how should it function - what are the social, cognitive, and institutional preconditions of well-functioning scientific research?
I am also interested in cognitive diversity, coping with uncertainty, epistemology of simulation modeling, foundations of scientific classification, as well as issues related to the (cognitive) science of science, scientific discovery, science policy, evidence-based policy, boosting, and Bildung in all its forms.
In June 2022, together with Säde Hormio and Raul Hakli, I organized the first Institutional epistemology workshop at the University of Helsinki. The third event in the series, INES2025 will take place in June 2025.
Together with Pantelis Analytis (Odense, Denmark) and Jacob Habinek (IAS, Sweden), I organize a series of workshops Nordic Network for the Science of Science (funded by NOS-HS, 2022-2023). In 2024, the Nordic network transformed into the European Network for the Science of Science (EUROSCISCI).
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Samuli Reijula, Curriculum vitae 2025-05
You can reach me here:
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bluesky: @samulireijula.net
mastodon: fediscience.org/@samulireijula
github: samulipo
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University of Helsinki CRIS
orcid: 0000-0001-6968-5819